Mark Trahant is Editor of the editorial page for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. In that position, he chairs the daily editorial board meeting, directs a staff of writers, editors, and a columnist; and writes a weekly Sunday column.

Trahant has been Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education, an Oakland, Ca.-based nonprofit providing advanced training and services to encourage media diversity in content, staffing, and business operations. A member of Idaho's Shoshone-Bannock Tribe, he is a former President of the Native American Journalists Association.

Trahant has worked as a columnist with The Seattle Times; as publisher of the Moscow, Idaho, Moscow-Pullman Daily News; as Executive News Editor of The Salt Lake Tribune; as a reporter with the Arizona Republic; and as a reporter with several tribal newspapers. He was a finalist for the 1989 Pulitzer Prize in National Reporting as co-author of a series on federal-Indian policy, and he has been a visiting professional scholar at The Freedom Forum's First Amendment Center at Vanderbilt University.

Trahant is author of "Pictures of Our Nobler Selves," a history of American Indian contributions to journalism, and of "The Whole Salmon," published by Idaho's Sun Valley Center for the Arts. He was a Pulitzer Prize juror in 2004 and in 2005.